Roberto Matta (1911-2002) — The Maker of Universes [oil on canvas, 1951]

Roberto Matta (1911-2002) - Bringing Light without Pain.

Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002), Cadeau enflamment, 1976. Oil on canvas, 72 x 63 cm.

Roberto Matta, 1962

Roberto Matta, Children´s Fear of Idols (1943)

12PM – L’Arc Obscur Des Heurs, 1975. Roberto Matta. Aquatint.

Roberto Matta, Entretiens Morphologiques: Notebook No 1: 1936-1944.

Roberto Matta - The Earth Is a Man - 1942

Trained as an architect, the Chilean-born Roberto Matta moved to France in 1933, where he worked in the studio of Le Corbusier. The following year, he met the poet Federico García Lorca in Spain. After Lorca was assassinated by agents of Francisco Franco in 1936, Matta began a screenplay, The Earth Is a Man, which he wrote in tribute to the slain hero.

In this powerful, enigmatic work, forces of brilliant light seem to battle those of darkness. The artist spilled, brushed, and wiped on vaporous washes of paint to render the invisible waves of energy that shape and dissolve a molten, primordial terrain. The painting’s visual intensity evokes the tumultuous eruption of a volcano, such as one Matta had witnessed in Mexico in 1941. Exhibited shortly after its completion in New York City, where he had immigrated at the onset of World War II, the mural- size canvas, with its abstract and visionary qualities, enthralled and influenced a new generation of American artists, who would come to be known as the Abstract Expressionists.

My Top 5 Painters 1/5 - Roberto Matta

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art

Roberto Matta, Here, Sir Fire, Eat!, 1942, oil on canvas, 142.3 x 112cm

Roberto Matta,

The Onyx Of Electra,

1944

Roberto Matta (1911-2002) — Studio for Don't "Think About Fleeing Anymore" [oil on canvas, 1951]

Abrir el cubo y encontrar la vida, Roberto Matta, s.f.

Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002), Untitled. Oil on canvas, 118 x 150 cm.

Malitte system designed by Roberto Matta -1966. Manufactured by Gavina @aintvintage

Every Man a King